Ronstang said:Maier Racing makes the biggest junk figerglass in the industry and has for over 25 years. I have never had a piece from them that even came close to fitting and I have had various pieces to deal with in the last 25 years. From my experience they sell complete junk.
Pakrat said:Wow, really? I just bought the shelby rear decklid and end caps from them for my 69' and I couldn't believe how good the fit seemed just out of the box. It needs some tweaking sure but I expected that with any glass. Did I just get lucky? I will say their service bites, took 14 weeks to get a part promised in 4 weeks or less but I was quite happy with it. Of course I have practically zero experience with glass compared to you of course but I was not unhappy in the least.
Ronstang said:You are lucky. There service has always sucked as you have found out yourself and their products from my experience are junk because they are NOT consistent. You got lucky, or maybe these are some newer pieces and the technology to make them has improved. Everything I have ever worked with from Maier for a 65-68 Mustang was nothing but a headache and not worth my time to alter to make acceptable. But that is my experience.
Ronstang said:Everything I have ever worked with from Maier for a 65-68 Mustang was nothing but a headache and not worth my time to alter to make acceptable. But that is my experience.
Ronstang said:You are lucky. There service has always sucked as you have found out yourself and their products from my experience are junk because they are NOT consistent. You got lucky, or maybe these are some newer pieces and the technology to make them has improved. Everything I have ever worked with from Maier for a 65-68 Mustang was nothing but a headache and not worth my time to alter to make acceptable. But that is my experience.
RGS0907 said:I've been hearing for several years now that their glass is pretty good. So who makes good quality glass these days? Where can I get an original style hood for my GT500?
mdjay said:Fiberglass can be contoured. You just apply pressure and a little heat, and let is sit there.
In my opinion, that's one of the biggest myths out there. I bought a POS Maier nose and hood for my car, and had to cut the nose into 5 seperate pieces to get anywhere close to bolting on the car. The hood sagged in the middle as do ALL Maier hoods. Don't believe me? Ask anyone with a Maier hood (or look in the Mustangs Plus catalog) to post a head-on pic of their car with a Maier hood. Anyway, I tried blocking the hood up in the center, putting 40lbs of weight per side (that's 80lbs total!) and using my propane heater to try to "contour" that POS. I left the heat on for three full days and nites, and left the weight on for another week afterwards with no movement at all, none, nada, zero. I was forced to cut the skin loose from the bracing, put the right shape in it myself, then re-glass the whole mess together. Not only was the shape totally wrong, but the hood was over 9/16" too narrow. Do the azzholes at Maier not own a tape measure? Oh, I can already hear someone saying how messed up my car was before I got it, but trust me it was a 91K miles, one owner car I purchased from a 93 year old lady. It was garaged nearly it's whole life, and had never had even a ding in it, let alone enough damage to cause it to be too narrow. There was a guy on here several months ago who was praising Maier and claimed to personally know some of the guys that worked there. He told me he would show them my post of my problems with their stuff and he was sure they would make it right. After all, mine was probably a fluke that somehow missed the strict quality control check at Maier. Never heard from him again. My guess is all their stuff is junk, it even says so in the Mustangs Plus catalog, for crissake!mdjay said:Fiberglass can be contoured. You just apply pressure and a little heat, and let is sit there.
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